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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!

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In particular, there are wide variations in how risk is measured, and once measured, across companies and countries, and those variations can lead to differences in expected returns and hurdle rates, central to both corporate finance and investing judgments.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

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I was reminded of that paper a few weeks ago, when Fitch downgraded the US, from AAA to AA+, a relatively minor shift, but one with significant psychological consequences for investors in the largest economy in the world, whose currency still dominates global transactions. and the reverse will occur, when risk-free rates drop.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

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In closing, I also want to dispense with the notion that data is objective and that numbers-focused people have no bias. Finally, it is worth noting that, notwithstanding the travails of last year, the number of firms in the data universe increased from 44,394 firms at the start of 2020 to 46,579 firms, a 4.9%

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Transcript: Stephen Suttmeier

Barry Ritholtz

And 00:06:38 [Speaker Changed] Door number one was much better than door number three in, in the circumstances. When we talk about breadth, we’re talking about the numbers of advancers versus decliners. Safe harbor harbor here, a little apo apocalyptic currency. So it’s like, yeah.